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is a Japanese video game store known for its collection of retrogames.
is a Japanese video game store known for its collection of retrogames.
Description
The main store is inAkihabara
is a common name for the area around Akihabara Station in the Chiyoda ward of Tokyo, Japan. Administratively, the area called Akihabara mainly belongs to the and Kanda-Sakumachō districts in Chiyoda. There exists an administrative district ca ...
, Tokyo
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, a district known for its video game, anime, and manga retail business. There is a second Tokyo location in Higashiikebukuro. Outside of Tokyo, another location is found in Nipponbashi, Osaka
is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of 2. ...
. In total, there are 6 locations.
While the store carries game culture-related paraphernalia, the flagship three-floor store is dedicated to rare Japanese games from older consoles. The first floor hosts the store's Nintendo Famicom and Japanese home PC games ( MSX 2, etc.), while the second houses games for more modern consoles: the Nintendo 64, PlayStation
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, Sega Saturn
The is a home video game console developed by Sega and released on November 22, 1994, in Japan, May 11, 1995, in North America, and July 8, 1995, in Europe. Part of the fifth generation of video game consoles, it was the successor to the succ ...
, and other consoles and handheld games from that era. Super Potato added its third floor, a small video arcade, in 2007. Games journalists were particularly fond of Super Potato's Famicom collection.
Kat Bailey of '' USgamer'' described Super Potato as "a museum as much as a shop" based on how visitors serendipitously interact with the games on display, as opposed to the deliberate choice of downloading a game at home. She predicted that the store would become more significant as retrogaming increases in popularity. '' Wired'' described the store as "legendary".
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